Spending review

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2 November 2009

Mind the gap

Brian Derry from the NHS Information Centre reflects on the coming financial crunch and how informatics can help the NHS
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10 September 2009

Arctic blast

A think-tank recently ranked its funding forecasts for the NHS from ‘tepid’ to ‘arctic.’ Sarah Bruce asks what that will
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20 July 2009

Funding forecast is colder than ever

The NHS would have to make historically unprecedented productivity gains to close the gap between its likely funding after 2011
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25 June 2009

It’s history (repeating itself)

The Gateway Reviews of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have been published. Lyn Whitfield took a look
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15 June 2009

Money, money, money

The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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10 June 2009

Confed: future ‘unprecedentedly difficult’

The NHS Confederation has warned that the health service is facing a £15 billion shortfall from 2010-11 and changed ways
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22 April 2009

No cuts, but low growth in budget

Chancellor Alastair Darling has told the Commons that the government does not plan to “cut” its way out of recession
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7 December 2007

CfH underspent by £828m over three years

Delays in implementations and delivery of systems under the National Programme for IT over the last three years means that
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10 October 2007

NHS budget to reach £110 billion by 2011

The NHS is to receive an increased budget from £90 billion this year to £110 billion by 2010-11, an increase
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12 September 2007

NHS ICT spend set to hit £2.9bn

The total spend on Information and Communications Technology in the NHS is set to hit £2.9bn in 2007/8 according to
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